Books - "literature"
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The Year of Adverbs
First edition, super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Smither New Zealand literature poetry poems
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including The Ballad of Reading Gaol
First edition, octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 163pp, VG- (heavy fading to spine & board edges, some staining to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, inscription in ink to fep, heavy browning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1911
KEYWORDS: Oscar Wilde literature poetry poems
Anatole and the Cat
First edition, quarto, illus grey heavy card boards with black lettering, red white & blue eps, 32pp, illus, VG(owner's name in ink to fep, some tanning) in d/w, VG- (browning to inside, light soiling, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1958
KEYWORDS: first edition Eve Titus Paul galdone children's literature
A Man and His Wife
First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with red lettering to spine & front board, 113pp + 2pp book ads, G+ only (heavy dampstaining & soiling to boards, front & rear hinges cracked, gutters cracked at several points, moderate tanning & foxing to eps, less so to page edges) in d/w, G+ only, (heavy staining & soiling, price clipped, damage with loss to flap folds and spine)
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1940
KEYWORDS: Frank Sargeson New Zealand literature first edition
The Naval Chronicle Volume 1
Re-bound with new eps, this volume only, small quarto, brown boards with no lettering, frontispiece, iv + iii + 548pp, illus, G only (owner's name in ink to fep, annotations in ink to prelim, heavy browning & some dampstaining, very heavy rotting from paper acid to fore-edges of last 40 or so pages, heavy browning to page edges, section of first four pages loosened)
PUBLISHER: Royal Navy (?) circa 1799
KEYWORDS: naval maritime history shipbuilding marine zoology Royal Navy navigation biography battles literature
The Naval Chronicle Volume 5
Re-bound with new eps, this volume only, small quarto, brown boards with no lettering, vii + 564pp, illus, VG (lacks prelims, annotations in ink to fep, heavy browning & light ink staining to page edges, some tanning & foxing, annotation in pencil to page 13, light creasing to corners of first few pages)
PUBLISHER: Royal Navy (?) 1801
KEYWORDS: naval maritime history shipbuilding marine zoology Royal Navy navigation biography battles literature
The Forty Second Parallel
First edition, octavo, cloth boards, vii + 406pp + 2pp book ads, VG- (some browning to prelims & terminals, heavy browning to page edges) in d/w, (remnants of d/w are stuck to a wrapper attached to the boards)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Co (1930 - n/d)
KEYWORDS: John Dos Passos first edition literature
The Wedding Officer
Octavo softover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Sphere 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Anthony Capella literature fiction novel
Layover in Dubai
Octavo softover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Vintage Pocket Black Lizard 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Dan Fesperman crime literature fiction novel
Javady Alley
Octavo softover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Women's Press 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Manny Shirazi literature fiction novel
Foreign Bodies
Octavo softover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Grafton / Harpercollins 1991
KEYWORDS: specials Amanda Craig literature fiction novel
The Coast
Octavo softover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1991
KEYWORDS: specials Nigel Barley literature fiction novel
An Operational Necessity
Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Fontana / Collins 1970
KEYWORDS: specials Gwyn Griffin literature fiction novel
Poet's Pub
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Eric Linklater literature fiction novel
Nana
Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Emile Zola literature fiction novel
Birds of Passage
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Abacus 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Bernice Rubens literature fiction novel
The Wooden Pegasus
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1920
KEYWORDS: specials Edith Sitwell literature poetry poems first edition
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You
Damp wrinkled, octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Andersen Press 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Hanna Jansen literature fiction novel
Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist
With a Selection of Harry Holland's Verse
Octavo softcover (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2016
KEYWORDS: specials Robert Burns Harry Holland Dougall McNeill poetry poet biography literature literary criticism New Zealand politics history
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea / The Shadow of the Glen / The Tinker's Wedding / The Well of the Saints / The Playboy of the Western World / Deirdre of the Sorrows
Octavo softcover (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: specials JM Synge literature theatre drama play playscript